Using sensitivity analysis to identify keystone species and keystone links in size-based food webs

Oikos

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 510-519

  Berg, Sofia ^a,b   Christianou, Maria ^a   Jonsson, Tomas ^b   Ebenman, Bo ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; FOOD WEB; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; KEYSTONE SPECIES; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MORTALITY; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; LAKE VATTERN; SWEDEN;

EID: 79952995307     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.18864.x     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Bender E. A. et al. 1984. Perturbation experiments in community ecology: theory and practice. Ecology 65: 1-13.
2. Benton T. G. and Grant A. 1999. Elasticity analysis as an important tool in evolutionary and population ecology. Trends Ecol. Evol. 14: 467-471.
3. Berlow E. L. et al. 2009. Simple prediction of interaction strengths in complex food webs. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 106: 187-191.
4. Blueweiss L. et al. 1978. Relationships between body size and some life history parameters. Oecologia 37: 257-272.
5. Borrvall C. and Ebenman B. 2006. Early onset of secondary extinctions in ecological communities following the loss of top predators. Ecol. Lett. 9: 435-442.
6. Borrvall C. and Ebenman B. 2008. Biodiversity and persistence of ecological communities in variable environments. Ecol. Complexity 5: 99-105.
7. Borrvall C. et al. 2000. Biodiversity lessens the risk of cascading extinctions in model food webs. Ecol. Lett. 3: 131-136.
8. Caswell H. 1989. Matrix population models. - Sinauer.
9. Caswell H. 1996. Second derivatives of population growth rate: calculation and applications. Ecology 77: 870-879.
10. Caswell H. 2001. Matrix population models: construction, analysis and interpretation. - Sinauer.
11. Caswell H. et al. 2004. Sensitivity analysis of equilibrium in density-dependent matrix population models. Ecol. Lett. 7: 380-387.
12. Christianou M. and Ebenman B. 2005. Keystone species and vulnerable species in ecological communities: strong or weak interactors? J. Theor. Biol. 235: 95-103.
13. De Ruiter P. C. et al. 1995. Energetics, patterns of interaction strengths and stability in real ecosystems. Science 269: 1257-1260.
14. Doak D. F. et al. 2005. Correctly estimating how environmental stochasticity influences fitness and population growth. Am. Nat. 166: E14-E21.
15. Duffy J. E. 2003. Biodiversity loss, trophic skew and ecosystem functioning. Ecol. Lett. 6: 680-687.
16. Dunne J. A. and Williams R. J. 2009. Cascading extinctions and community collapse in model food webs. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 364: 1711-1723.
17. Dunne J. A. et al. 2002. Network structure and biodiversity loss in food webs: robustness increases with connectance. Ecol. Lett. 5: 558-567.
18. Ebenman B. and Jonsson T. 2005. Using community viability analysis to identify fragile systems and keystone species. Trends Ecol. Evol. 20: 568-575.
19. Ebenman B. et al. 2004. Community viability analysis: the response of ecological communities to species loss. Ecology 85: 2591-2600.
20. Eklöf A. and Ebenman B. 2005. Species loss and secondary extinctions in simple and complex model communities. J. Anim. Ecol. 75: 239-246.
21. Emmerson M. C. and Raffaelli D. 2004. Predator-prey body size, interaction strength and the stability of a real food web. J. Anim. Ecol. 73: 399-409.
22. Emmerson M. et al. 2004. How does global change affect the strength of trophic interactions? Bas. Appl. Ecol. 5: 505-514.
23. Estes J. and Palmisano J. 1974. Sea otters: their role in structuring nearshore communities. Science 185: 1058-1060.
24. Hansson S. et al. 2007. Managing Baltic Sea fisheries under contrasting production and predation regimes. Ecosystem model analyses. Ambio 36: 265-271.
25. Haridas C. V. and Tuljapurkar S. 2005. Elasticities in viariable environments: properties and implications. Am. Nat. 166: 481-495.
26. Harvey C. J. et al. 2003. An ecosystem model of food web and fisheries interactions in the Baltic Sea. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 60: 939-950.
27. Ives A. R. and Cardinale B. J. 2004. Food-web interactions govern the resistence of communities after non-radom extinctions. Nature 429: 174-177.
28. Ives A. R. and Carpenter S. R. 2007. Stability and diversity in ecosystems. Science 317: 58-62.
29. Jackson J. B. C. et al. 2001. Historical overfishing and the recent collapse of coastal ecosystems. Science 293: 629-637.
30. Jonsson T. and Ebenman B. 1998. Effects of predator-prey body size ratios on the stability of food chains. J. Theor. Biol. 193: 407-417.
31. Jonsson A. and Ebenman B. 2001. Are certain life histories particularly prone to local extinction? J. Theor. Biol. 209: 455-463.
32. Lewis H. M. et al. 2008. Abundance-body size relationships: the role of metabolism and population dynamics. J. Anim. Ecol. 77: 1056-1062.
33. Montoya J. M. et al. 2005. Perturbations and indirect effects in complex food webs. - In: de Ruiter P. et al. (eds), Dynamic food webs. Academic Press, pp. 369-380.
34. Montoya J. M. et al. 2009. Press perturbations and indirect effects in real food webs. Ecology 90: 2426-2433.
35. Myers R. A. and Worm B. 2003. Rapid worldwide depletion of predatory fish communities. Nature 42: 280-283.
36. Neubert M. G. and Caswell H. 1997. Alternatives to resilience for measuring the response of ecological systems to perturbation. Ecology 78: 653-665.
37. O'Gorman E. J. et al. 2010. Interaction strength, food web topology and the relative importance of species in food webs. J. Anim. Ecol. 79: 682-692.
38. Ovaskainen O. 2003. Habitat destruction, habitat restoration and eigenvector-eigenvalue relations. Math. Biosci. 181: 165-176.
39. Paine R. 1966. Food web complexity and species diversity. Am. Nat. 100: 65-75.
40. Parmesan C. 2006. Ecological and evolutionary responses to recent climate change. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 37: 637-669.
41. Petchey O. L. and Gaston K. J. 2002 Extinction and the loss of functional diversity. Proc. R. Soc. B 269: 1721-1727.
42. Petchey O. L. et al. 2008. Trophically unique species are vulnerable to cascading extinction. Am. Nat. 171: 568-579.
43. Peters R. H. 1983. The ecological implications of body size. - Cambridge Univ. Press.
44. Pimm S. 1979. Complexity and stability: another look at MacArthur's original hypothesis. Oikos 33: 351-357.
45. Post E. et al. 1999. Ecosystem consequences of wolf behavioral response to climate. Nature 401: 905-907.
46. Sanford E. 1999. Regulation of keystone predation by small changes in ocean temperature. Science 283: 2095-2097.
47. Schmitz O. J. et al. 2003. Ecosystem responses to global climate change: moving beyond color mapping. Bioscience 53: 1199-1205.
48. Schneider G. and Behrends G. 1994. Populations dynamics and the trophic role of Aureliaaurita medusae in the Kiel Bight and western Baltic. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 51: 359-367.
49. Setzer M. 2005. En näringsvävsanalys för att undersöka storrödingens (Salvelinus umbla) tillbakagång i Vättern. - Univ. of Skövde, Sweden.
50. Solé R. and Montoya J. 2001. Complexity and fragility in ecological networks. Proc. R. Soc. B 268: 2039-2045.
51. Thomas C. D. et al. 2004. Extinction risk from climate change. Nature 427: 145-148.
52. Tuljapurkar S. et al. 2003. The many growth rates and elasticities of populations in random environments. Am. Nat. 162: 489-502.
53. van Tienderen P. H. 1995Life cycle tradeoffs in matrix population models. Ecology 76: 2482-2489.
54. Voigt W. et al. 2003. Trophic levels are differentially sensitive to climate. Ecology 84: 2444-2453.
55. Woodward G. et al. 2005. Body size in ecological networks. Trends Ecol. Evol. 20: 402-409.
56. Wootton J. T. and Emmerson M. 2005. Measurement of interaction strength in nature. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 36: 419-444.
57. Worm B. and Myers A. 2003. Meta-analysis of cod-shrimp interactions reveals top-down control in oceanic food webs. Ecology 84: 162-173.
58. Vätternvårdsförbundet 2009. Förvaltningsplan för fisk och fiske i Vättern 2009-2013. - Vattenvårdsförbundet.
59. Yodzis P. 1988. The indeterminacy of ecological interactions as perceived through perturbation experiments. Ecology 69: 508-515.
60. Yodzis P. and Innes S. 1992. Body size and consumer-resource dynamics. Am. Nat. 139: 1151-1175.